Contemptible Cover: His album Horse and Goat had to be sold with a reversible cover, with a close-up of a girl's face on the front and the real cover on the back. The first two manufacturers they went to wouldn't even print it. Not surprising, considering that the cover was done by TrevorBrown.

Crazy-Prepared: The liner notes for "Shitfuckers!!!" entail how to give an enema.

Everything Is an Instrument / Intercourse with You: He and Hecate, an industrial / dark electronic artist, released an album called Nymphomatriarch. It was made solely out of recordings of them having sex between shows while on tour. It's one of the best-known works of either artist to date.

Intentionally Awkward Title: Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole, an awkward enough title in its own right, contains a song titled, Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die. In the years between Greg Hates Car Culture and Making Orange Things, he put out a 12" titled Shitfuckers!!! and a split with US musician Stunt Rock, titled Fuck Canada Fuck America. And of course the above mentioned Rossz Csillag Alatt Született. It's not awkward for Hungarian speakers, of course, but for everyone else...

Scary Musician, Harmless Music: Venetian Snares normally makes music just as aggressive and unfriendly as he looks, but a few of his tracks (I'm Sorry I Failed You) are soft and melodic, often built out of orchestra samples.

Then again, when one reads interviews with Funk, he's less scary than really snarky, so it goes both ways.

"Filth", which was released under his main alias, is also mainly acid techno and is more abrasive than his Last Step work. The album was a big stylistic change from "Detrimentalist", which angered some fans.

Uncommon Time: Inverted — 7/4 is his most common time signature, and he tends towards others as well, such as 11/4 or 10/4, but once in a blue moon, he'll play in 4/4.

In even rarer cases, he not only plays it straight, but turns it Up to 11. Case in point: "Nineteen 1319," A song written in 13/4 and 19/4 time, alternating between the two.

Perhaps a straighter example is Mercy Funk, from Find Candace, which quoting Wikipedia goes like this: note "Mercy Funk starts with 8 bars of 11/4 then switches to alternating bars of 5/4 and 13/8 (or 23/8 together) until 2'32". It then holds 5/4 until 3'50", where a single 7/4 bar is followed by 7 bars of the 23/8 plus one 19/8 bar. At 4'23" there follows a sequence of 16 bars of 13/8, 8 bars of 7/4, a cycle of 3 bars of 7/4 and a bar of 15/8 (or 57/8 together), repeated twice, then 7/4 until the end." Mind Screw at its best.

Word Salad Title: There is no such thing as a "Cadmium Lung Jacket" or a "Huge Chrome Peach." And there certainly is no "Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms."

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